Speaking In Tongues Quotes

• Speaking in tongues is not enough.If we turn men from unchristian religions to christianity we must produce miracles which convince men that Christ lives and He is real today.

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  T.L. Osborn

  Real   Men   Miracle  

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• I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.

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  Alexis De Veaux

  Dream   Taken   Writing  

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• All religious vows, codes, and commitments are null & void herein. Please refrain from contaminating the ideosphere with harmful memes through prayer, reverence, holy books, proselytizing, prophesying, faith, speaking in tongues or spirituality. Fight the menace of second-hand faith! Humanity sincerely thanks you!

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  Greg Erwin

  Thank You   Religious   Prayer  

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• When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

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  Noel Fielding

  Funny   Kids   Humor  

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• Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

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  Katy Perry

  Prayer   Secret   Tongue  

  "Katy Perry's Preacher Mom Disagrees With Daughter's Career Choices", www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2011.

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• Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.

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  Thomas Aquinas

  Believe   Miracle   Speaking In Tongues  

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• As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

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  George Whitefield

  Long   Miracle   Tongue  

  George Whitefield (1904). “Selected Sermons of George Whitefield: With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A.R. Buckland ...”, p.227, CCEL

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• I think my criticism of the Pentecostal tradition that I heard with my sister's church was that it wasn't always audible. You couldn't quite figure out what was going on. And then, the people would very often do what they call speaking in tongues and I didn't know what they were saying. My father used to always say that if it can't be understood, then it's not the good news or not the gospel.

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  David C. Driskell

  Father   Thinking   People  

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

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  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Snakes   Circles   Overcoming  

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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